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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people left with the first rescue team?
(a) 80
(b) 24
(c) 42
(d) 7

2. How did they help Jimmy Reed travel?
(a) They encouraged him by telling him that every step he took was getting closer to Papa.
(b) They threatened him.
(c) They carried him.
(d) They put him on a sled.

3. What did the interior of the wagon remind Virginia of?
(a) A stuffed closet
(b) A garbage heap
(c) Organized chaos
(d) A living room

4. Who possessed the west?
(a) Mexico
(b) Californians
(c) Native Americans
(d) England

5. Who is the unofficial untarnished hero of the Donner Party?
(a) Patrick Dolan
(b) William Eddy
(c) Charles Stanton
(d) James Reed

Short Answer Questions

1. What was George Donner's occupation?

2. What did Reed want out west?

3. Why was Jean Baptiste Trudeau poking through the snow with a stick?

4. What did the note from Hastings on the stick say?

5. How did they get the wagons down the canyons?

(see the answer key)

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